This shall means that it will create /backup/cpbackup/daily & /weekly & /monthly in .tar.gz compressed format.

I just got a remote backup server (Another IP Address in the same datacenter rack)

What I want to do is to change my ways of backup into something like this:

- I want to enable daily uncompressed incremental backup for Daily/Weekly only
- I want it to Mount /backup when backup starts at 12 midnight and unmount /backup when process finishes
- Next, I also want the backup to do Compressed backup on every Sunday & Wednesday into my remote FTP backup server

How can I do that? Please guide me with configuration and crontab settings. I believe this require manual backend scripts which I don't know how to write or where to begin.

No, this will not execute the backup process, just merely setting the appropriate configuration you needed. If backups are enabled, which you show it is, then you already have a cronjob for cpbackup installed.

If you want to change the backup process launch time then you will need to modify the entry for /scripts/cpbackup in your crontab to the desired time to launch.

What option is less time (or load) consuming in the server, an incremental backup or a compression backup? Which one is better?

Thanks for your comments.

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The incremental backup will creat much less load on the server since it isn't doing all of the accounts and gzip'ing them as compared to compression backup. However, the compression backup will occupy less space if you are concerned about that.